You are the network administrator for a rather large company. You have a growing young family and need your job to support them. Part of your responsibility as a network administrator is to monitor the emails for the organization. Occasionally some emails are accidently blocked by your company's spam filters, and do need to get through. When that happens, at the request of employees, you review the emails and then allow them to go through.

One day you get a helpdesk request from a staff member asking for an email to get released. Normally it’s standard procedure, except this time the request has come from the wife of a very good friend of yours. You recognize the name on the helpdesk request, so you quickly attend to the problem. As part of the procedure you need to manually open up the email to ensure that it isn’t spam. As you do so, you discover that it certainly isn’t spam. You find that it’s actually an email to your friend's wife from her lover. You scan the rest of the contents of the email and there is no doubt that she has been having an affair for some time now.

You release the email, but you can’t decide what to do next. Your initial reaction is to call your friend up and tell him about the email. However you quickly realize that company policy is very strict about revealing the contents of confidential emails of staff members regardless of the contents, unless someone’s life is in immediate danger.

You also know that revealing this information presents great risk, because there is a good chance that the dots will be joined somewhere along the line and you will be found out as the leak. However, you feel that by not telling your friend that you are aiding his wife in getting away with adultery and this troubles you greatly.

If you do reveal to your friend the fact that his wife is cheating yet not share how you obtained this information, you know he is going to insist on you revealing the source to him. By not telling you will jeopardize your friendship. He will press you for information and will not be satisfied with "excuses" about not telling him how you know.

What do you do?